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Sweepup. That night, police and soldiers began a nationwide roundup of Communists. Party big shots heard a radio news flash and, just in time, skedaddled. Parliamentary immunity spared the party's five Senators and 15 Deputies. But at El Siglo, the Communist newspaper in Santiago, even the linotypers were arrested. At Lota, 300 miners' leaders were held for court-martial. When Communist unions pulled reprisal strikes in the great nitrate fields and copper mines, the Army grabbed another...
...expedition was chiefly that of the Trib's able Foreign Editor Joe Barnes, 40. He knew that the Trib could not spare the space or the foreign staff to compete with the rival Times. But Barnes hoped that four fast-moving reporters could turn out a roundup that would tell more about Eastern Europe than daily datelines...
...eleven others were wounded. The shooting had lasted long enough for a movie cameraman to record it in detail. Army Chief Genovevo Perez Damera saw the film, denounced the affair as a "monstrous assassination." He ordered Salabarria and several of his followers charged with murder and began a general roundup of Salabarria partisans...
...time, but would, by concrete evidence, give Europeans something to thing about in favor of American and her system of government. Tiredly shelving a bill to help solve the DP problem by letting some immigrants into the country, Congress has instead pushed to absured measures the attempt to "roundup" communists, whose influence of course is nil in a country as rich as the U.S. today...
...efficient hostess, Colombia is preparing well ahead of time for the ninth Pan American Conference, scheduled tentatively for December. A primary move has been to rid Bogotá's streets of beggars, which last week were strangely free of the lame and the halt-result of a preconference roundup...